Discovery and development of a chemical compound to interact with that target.

Human genome sequence using bioinformatics has helped to define and classify the nucleotide compositions of those genes

The number of potential targets for drug discovery process is increasing exponentially

Bioinformatics is used to identify and analyze more and more biological drug targets; thus expected to greatly increase the breath of possible drugs.

It is an area where bioinformatics plays a vital role. The possibility for failure in the clinical testing and approval phases can be moderated by drug target validation.

Bioinformatics also provides strategies and algorithm to predict new drug targets and to store and control available drug target information.

Bioinformatics in drug discovery includes Computer-aided drug design (CADD).

There are many bioinformatics analysis tools that can be used to determine the level of sequence similarity.

It is very useful to determine how species vary based on similarity or dissimilarity of gene structure or amino acid sequence in protein

CADD methods are dependent on bioinformatics tools, applications and databases.

Bioinformatics techniques are used in two different phases of drug discovery
1) To extract interesting information
2) Find important genes and proteins speeding the process of drug discovery,